The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1875, Page 11

CUSTOM HOUSE, [CONTINUED FROM EIGHTH PAGE) ernment, according to the ratio of business, than | ip any o! ww city in the country. Some stir was made yosteraay in reference to the pension ol two inspectors for failing to re- lieve two night ins} as pler 62 North itiver, | at sunrise, as in duiy bound, ana coming several hours late, The aggrieved night inspectors duly entered complain whien were submitted to the surveyor, w' suspended the officials, the name oI one them being Rus- sell, ‘The matter will be brought before the Collector. A report has gained credence that @ strict investigation 1s about serine ace with Telerence to the payments alleged to le by the majority of foreign steamship companies on | the North River to som House inspectors for facilitating the discharge Of steamships, and not being “tov strict” in the emforcement of Custom House rules, These gilts are technically termed “house money.” It may here be remarked thas each Custom House official, when he draws his | monthly pay, makes oath before a notary public that he has received no money or consideration, directly or indirectly, for the fulfiment of his duty. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. —_—_-———_. Review of the Situation—The Finance Bill and Its Possibilities. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. of Stocks—Prices Lower. The Course GOLD AND BONDS. WALL STREET, } SUNDAY, Jan. 10, 1875. The story of Wall stre%t for the past week may be briefly told. Its principal event was the pas- sage by the House of Representatives of the Sen- te Finance bill, although tt is to be noted that, so far as direct effects are concerned, tt fell stillborn upon the several markets. In fact little attention appears to be paid to the measure, and it is only when its advantages or its evils begin to be traced home in the distant future that we shdli fully re- alize the changes which it proposes to inaugurate, For the present it is regarded a8 @ mere politico- financial expedient, rushed into existence without debate and likely to be modified by the capricious will of another Congress, The real improvement of the country will obey more potent imfuences than those created by sach hasty legislation. Iv does not remove distrast, It1s nos calculated to displace THE IRON HAND that clasps tne throat of productive industry, Who at the present moment dares bind himself for the future? Who, in the lace of business stagna- tion and séarce money, 18 bold enough to propose new: contracts on the basis of such Jeebie hopes as are-held out oy this latest device of our public tinkers? To reach specie payments we must move step by step, gradually and carefully, up a purely commerciai—not a legisiative—ladder. Natural laws must be tn successful operation. Either the prices of jabor, of commodities, of all the necessaries of life must come to a level with gold or gold must advance to mees them. The. two elements must be equalized before there can be resumption. It has been truly observed that LABOR IS THE SOURCE OF WRALTH. If this has been mmflated—if, in osher words, the price is 50 per cent higher than 1t was when we had specie payments—then all tho products of that lapor (the things we buy and seil) are 50 per cent higher. This has peen the case for the lust- eight or ten years, Gold, instead of keeping pace with the advance, has meanwhile gone down, like cotton, wheat, four, corn, petroieam or any other commodity. {t is not this decline, nowever, that wil! enable us to reach specie payments, nor shall we attain them while we continue to make gold an article of merchandise in one class of transactions, and, in settling our balances with foreigners, we make it @ measure of value. THR STOCK MARKET was not during the week the scene of @nasual ex- citement, although some stocks suffered a sharp ecline, chief among which was Wabash, which receded from 20% to 16}. Business has been in- active and confined to local operators, there being an apparent indisposition on thé part of outside buyers to speculation om the present ansettied condition of affairs, As before vemarked. the street 1s poor ana devoia of any self-sustaining power, and whatever change ocoure for the boster will doubtless be inaugurated by those who have of late exhibited suen a perfect controi over the market. A few days are likely to more fully deter- mine the permanency of the present weakness, and, with the exception of certain stocks that are said to be inberently weak, to show that the lower stratum nas been reached and an opportunity is at nand for successiul and safe thvestment. After Wabash, St Paul dropped from 393 vo 37%, but subsequently recovered. Erie fell off trom 30% to 28, Western Union sold down from 79 to 76%. Northwestern common declined . from 48% to 46%, then rallied to 474, and finally closed at 47. Lake Shore dropped trom 19% to 78%, and closed weak at the lowest point. ©., C. and L. ©, declined trom 9% to 8. Pacific Mail fuc- tuated frequently between 83% and 34%. Union Pacific fell from 374 to 35, rose to 37, and, still later, receded to 36%. Atlantic and Pacific Tele- graph advanced irom 18}, to 23, the highest quota- tion having been made in the final sales, United States Express rose from 58 to61. The other changes were less important. At the close the general market was irregular, and, in the main, weak. HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OP THE WEEK. Tne following shows the highest and lowest prices of the week in the leading shares :— Highest. Lowest, New York Central. 128 28 18% Wabash. 16% Northwestern, 4635 Northwestern 61% Rock Island. 102% Miiwaukee and > BTA Bhiwaukee aua SI 584 PIUCSUUTY.. 66 ee eee ee 884g Del., Lackawanna ani 106% New Jersey Central. 105 Michigan Central Billy Inois Central 10035 Union Pacific. 36 ©. and LC... 8 Hannival and St. Josep! 254 Hannibal and St. Josep! 85 34% Ohio and Mississippi 82 31% PanaMa.....ser..e. L m1 Western Union Tele; 9 16% Atlantic and Pacifi 18% Pacific Mall 3330 Quicksilver. 34 Quicksilver p 44 43 Agams Expre seeseees OOK 984 American Merchanig’ Union Ex... 63% 6246 United states EXPRESS, «+000 +0000 61s 58 OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES SATURDAY. The following table shows the opening, hig anc lowest prices yesterday :— Highest, Lowest 101% 101% 28% 2855 79% 18% 117% 165 47% 40% Northwestern Oli 614 Rock Island 103% 108 Milwaukee and St. 39% 38% Mu. and St. Paul pref. 69% 58% Obie aod Mississippi. 32 3% New Jersey Central......106%¢ 10615 106% Del., Lack, and Western. 10734 107% 107% Union Pacific STM 26% " ee Atluntic and Pacific Te! a ot Pacific Mati vee Ay 83% Pavama.. 2 2 Ulsg CLOSING PRICES—3 P. M., SATURDAY. Pacific Mati, 34 a 344; Western Union Tete. gtaph, 76% @ 76%; Quicksilver, 34% & 39; do. pre- ferred, 42% @ 43%; OC. C., C. and L, 69% a Atilanuc and Pacific Telegraph, 23 @ 23% Adams Express, 99}; a 100; American Express, 63 a 63/4; United Staves Express, 61 861%; Wells- Fargo Express, 79 @ 80; Chicago and Alton, 104% a 10636; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 88% @ 89; Chicago and Northwestern, 46% @ 47; do. preferred, 61 a NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY I], ry Mowautee and St. Paul, 88% a 38%; ao. preferred, | 600.59%; C., C. and I. C., 8% a 9; Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western, 107% a 10734; Erie, 28% @ 28% ; Hannibal and St. Joseph, 25 a 25%; Hannibal and St. Joseph preterred, 34a 35; Lake Snore, ex | M& dividend, 75% a 7534; New York Central and Hud- son River, 101% a 101%; New Jersey Central, 106 & | 106%; Obio and Mississippi, 31% a 82; Panama, 112 8 113; Toledo and Wabasb, 16% @ 17%; Union Pa- che, 3734 & 37%, THE MONEY MARKET. Money, both on call loans and for commerctal paper, was easy, the former being quoted trom 2 to 6 per cent, with an abundant supply of capital | offering at the close at 3 and 4 per cent, Inthe discount market rates ranged trom 6 to 7 per cent for prime double names and 6 to 8 per cent for single names, Paper classed below good to prime ranged trom 10 to 15 per cent. The gain by the Bank of England during the week of upward of £600,000 bullion enabled the institution to re- duce its rate of discount from 6 to § per cent, and for @ time gave increased firmness to bankers? | long sterling, but the market closed with business | at 4.8534 @ 4.8534 for long and 4.89% a 4.89% for de~ mand, GOLD, Under the influence of continued shipments gold advanced to 113, but subsequently yielded to strong depressing efforts to 112}. These were the two extremes of the week. Higher prices are expected in this market, although it 1s confessed that the poverty of the board is such as to forbid success/ul antagonism to sny well organized bear movement, should it be attempted. The following table shows the range of prices :— Lotte Highest. . est. Monday, Jan. 4... 13 112% Tuesday, Jan. 6... 112% = 112% 12 Wednesday, Jan 6. 112% 112% 112% Thursday, Jan. 7... 112% 112: meg Friday, Jam. 8...... 11234 112% = 1124 Saturday, Jan. 9... 124¢ 112% =a The total payments by the Treasury on account of Januury interest to date are $11,437,000,. The total specie shipments for the week were $1,616,121, of which $1,376,500 was gold coin and $239,621 silver bars. STATE BONDS. Prices in these have been generally well main- tained, with not an inconsiderable exhibition of firmness in Tennessees and Missouris, The news from Louisiana has naturally had an unfavorable effect on the bonds of that State. South Carolinas, under the new administration, are more actively dealt in by private parties and a better undertone exists, RAILROAD BONDS, A good investment demand has been maintained in the approved securities of this class, and a large amount of the sum of January disburse- ments has found a place in this direction. It mast be confessed, however, that they have found a rival in GOVERNMENT BONDS, the business in which was generally animated. Prices, however, declined sympattetically with gold. The following shows the London quotations for government bonds in sterling money, and the equivalent in currency based on 4.90 for sight ex- change and 112% for gold, in comparison with the quotations current in our own market:— London Equiv'tin Quotations quotations. currency. nere, +-LOT3¢ & 24 118.10 @ 118.25 107% & 3% 118.38 @ 118.52 & 3g 114.81 @ 114.95 113.85 New York markets are very close on nearly ail the bonds, THE BANK STATEMENT, The bank statement ig encouraging, inasmach as ttsets forth a degree of improvementin its It will be seen that the-London and genera) average. It shows an increase in surplus reserve of $3,889,450, the banks now holding $16,139,750 lawful money above the legal require. ment, against $12,250,300 so held last week. COMMERCIAL REPORT. COTTON FIRM FOR “SPOT,” HIGHER FOR 0 at -6c., 1,700 at 16 1-320. HAVANA MARKETS. be May, 100 at 16 2,200 eA ES ORR A EAB Havana, Jan. 9, 1876, ® Yesserday's closing p: AD Gar iC. 5 be \. 9, February. 14 Dit deste. Maren, 15) tide, | Sugar firm and in fir demand; to, fair to ri wa H ; a6% reals per arrobe, gold; grocery 1s) gold kin warehouse at Havana | and Matang 900 box i 9900 nhds; receipu of the week, 16,500 boxes and 540 bhds.; exported during | day Corrux.—Tha market for Kio aid santos a, ean, 19. a 200.5 Al 1Skec. a 2lc.; Savanilla, lsc. & Whee. | Curacoa, ng ostUE, 5 See. & 19360., gold, sixty and ninety ays. Pron any Gnarx.—Receipts—Fiour, 14.912 bla ; wheat, | 10,900 bushels; corn, 63,420 do.; corn meal, 700 bbis. and | 697 bags; oats, 34,400 bushels, And for the'week ending | this date—Fiour, 36,067 bbis.; wheat, 109, corn, $86,365 do. ; corn meal, 3,438 bbis. and oats, 164,745 bushels; barley, 8,500do:; rye, 329 a flour market wasdull and quotation. y changed, wooush rusing in Dayers LAVOE. Sales were re | ported of pouthern flo al a rye tlour | Corn meal unchanged. Sales G0) bis W. were dail & o e esroattootseepaseonnt cond [ZSeeb SBSSEEnRRRIEEEE © Minnesota..... .. Bound hoop Ohio, Kound heop Ohio, tr: Family ....... St Louis, low’ exira: St. Louis, straight e: ‘St. Louis, choice doubie St. Louis, choice family Bye dour, fine to superfine Southern, No. 2... Southern, superfine... Southern, exira. Southern, family. Gorn meal, Weste: Corn meal, Jersey Corn meal, Brandywine. Corn meal, puncheons. Wheat Was dull and nominal at $1 10 4 $1 13 tor No. 2 Chicago, in-store and afloat; $1 13 a $1 15 for Milwau- kee. About 72,50 busheis sold at $1 23 tor No.1 and 1 298 $1 31 for amber winter, i$1 30 tor white Ohio, 1 1 @ $1 13 tor, No. & Northwi Corn was firm ior shipping brands. ie brands. SERSKESSReEE SERERE REESE ES EE = Ese BEE Es PRR oar ZeTMSAageboage Bree SORES rt new mixed, but trade was light. Sales 81,000 bushels at ‘B60. & Bac. ixed, in store and afloat; sic. tor Oats were firm and quite active. es, 70,000 bushels at 69c. a 70c. tor fuil loads mixed, 9c. a 7c. tor White. Barley was quict, 8,000 bushel two-rowed State, sold at $146. Rye was dull and none inal. 1,000 busbeis state sold at 9c. FReIGHTS.—ibere was a moderate business reported to-day both in the line of berth freights and charters, Yo London, steam, 8.000 bi xd. a lag. and by sail, 100 tierces lard at 978. 6d., S00 bbls, flour at 38. YO Hamburg, Dy ate bags’ clover seed ats. The charters o1 C8 — A, German brig: hence to Great Yarmouth, with 1.100 dbis. of re ed petroleum at an American bark, hence to Morgan Pill, with by by 6s, 2,300 bbls. naphtha at 6x. and 700 bbls. of roulh ab2s. 6d-; a British bark, hence to Bristol, Liverpool or London, with 3,200 bbls, of petroleum at 4s. 9d ; a bark, hence to Marseilles, with 3,000 bbis. crude petroleum, said to be at a.; an Ttallan bark, of 400 tons, nence to Fame, with a full cargo of tobacco at 50s. and £lu gratuity. Motassxs—Domestic met with a moderate Jobbing demand at steady prices, Saies 175 bbis. ot New Or- leans at figures within the tions, Foreign Cuba, centritigal aud mixed, ise. a 3 3c. & 400.; do. muscoyado, refining, Sic. do. @ 450,; Porto Rico, 40c. a 030.; English Janda, 380, a S80.; New Orleans, Naval Storus.—tho market tor continued dull, but appeared to bea shade fir uote merchantable order 3c. A sale was reported of bbls. on private terms, but said to have brought 36c. ‘The market for rosin remamed inactive, with strained yet quoted at $210 for good, There were no repor! ‘Yar aud pitctx ruled quiet, but were meady at figures last published. PT Saeed market ior refined resanined ie ive. but values were qi 8 same; 101 at 124¢c. & Lise. for deltvery balance of month. “Crude i was firmly held at cases quoted firmer at I7%c. a Site japhtna was lower; quoted at 9o, for city, The hijadelphia market was dull and values nomingliy t- changed; quoted at 3c, a 24c.for for delivery arkets were firmer, but quiets Gasted Bs. follpwes G itusvill jules as fol Bh JAY, % jtusville, 1 2g Bousoviti, iH; Phvol ine doutre, $115 1 205" ‘Tdeoute, 3 Parker fl 135 ab United, 1 13%; at Union, $1 $0, immediate shipment, Puovisions.—Keceipts—Pork, 470 bbls. ; beet, 300 pack- ages; cut meats, 3, “UTURE’—FLOUR DULL—WHEAT DULL— CORN FIRMER—OATS FIRMER—PORK DULL— LARD HIGHER—CUT MEATS QUIET—GROCERIES QUIET—FREIGHTS FIRM—PETROLEUM UN- CHANGED—NAVAL STORES DULL—WHISKEY STEADY. SATURDAY, Jan. 9-6 P. M. The new year has brought with it some little in- crease in business and a good geal of irregularity and upcertainty with regard to mercantile values, Tho possible benefit of providing for specie pay- ments four or five years hence is counteracted by the increase of paper money meanwhile provided fer by the sel/same bill, so that the Congressional yegisiation on this important matter 1s of no es- pedial importance so far.as regards itsimmeditate iiGuence or effects upon the merchandise mar- kota. These markets, it is wherefore fair to presume, wili be governed by “demand and supply” for some time hence. As the “supply” is very generally sufficient for all contingencies, and as the demand is and bas been very moderate, the markets, as oom. pared with a week ago, snow little if any change foe the better. The most hopeful feature in these duil times 9 the absence of any disposition to force sales and thos precipitate a decline in values. Holders aro will- ing, and tygnany cases anxious, to sell, but notsuffi- ctomtly afftious to indace them to force sales at any sac- rife. The markets may accordingly be regarded as comparatively steady, though dull. The volume of busi- ness during the week past was small, business in many commodities being extremely light. Yet a hope- tul feeling was manifest in nearly every de, partment of trade, and confident expectations of a comparatively large business during the spring season were freely expressed on every hand, providing that the country can be permitted to settle down in peace and quiet. But it the past week is to be any criterion of the fature no such thing as quiet and peace can be expected until a chief executive ot the nation can be selected from among the gtatesmen of the country. Business men every where éxpress themselves as heartily tired of military rule in time of peace, and long for the change which itis now universally conceded must take place, until which time it Is generally feared that it will be impossible to keep business and politics unmixed. Daring the pas: week they have been more mixed, as well as muddled, than at any time since the termination of the war. Petitions expressive of indignation at the course pursued at New Urieans, followed, in some cases, by others expressive - Prova of the course, of the administration thers have n freely circulated in all the exchanges, as well as through business marts generally, to the disturbance of bosiness, and in many Cases contrary to the judgment ot some of the best business men, who always object wo the mingling of politics and business in apy manner aud under any circumstances, Dry ‘wed dull all through the week, Hardwaro was little ii better. On °C a flour was dull, nominal and in buye! favor all through the week. Whont was also dull and declin- ing, and closed pominal and lower on Saturday atter a sinall business for the week. Corn was somewhat irregular, but on the whole firm with a fair demand.’ in part for exports Oats were dail declining, and lower most of the time, Dut closed firmer on Saturday, Barley was quiet but firm all throngh she eek; business was Very light, prime being hela above the views of buyers. Rye was dull and nominal Pro- visions were somewhat irregular, Pork was qi firm Gurtng the early part of the week, nus close. on Saturday. Bacon and cut meats were firmer. was treely in all through the weok and vanced, Closing strong on Saturday at the hi Freights ruled stronger im the al vessels tor charter brought high ratea ©; for lots on the spot, and higher and in good aemand tor “fature.” Groceries ruled quiet, Petroleum was dull and unchang ‘al stores were inactive and tw a Great extent no DorPOx.—The market for spot cotton was firm with the demand confined to 4 !ew special lots which were either Purchased of offered st prices confirming the appended Quotations, which show no changes us compared. with yesterday.sdespite the advance in futures Hoklers in i showing, an ‘was evidently @ue (o speouiat Cause. Liverpool advices an being not suihciently chi fluence, with some private reports {rom Li & slight improvement in late shipmeu rivate the public aecounts we fradiotory he cart closed firm at og quotal january, ic. @ 14 29 3c, 11.160 w 18 S320, March, 15}g06; "April 1s z4-3be 16360, @ 16 5-326. une, 16 7-160. @ 16 1o-82c. ; July, 16 May, a 163c. ; ; ‘August, 16 15-16e. nominally. ‘We (spot cotton—quotations based on American sta New Orteans, 12) \o exert any mt ueriad verpool Dot while oiber con- low. of a tur ‘the foil classification) = + Oplanas, Alabama, 13' 16 1 5: 15) eoee 123 Fr the grade quoted :—Ordu strict od ordinary, 14) Gling, fo3¢0. wood maida #14; Chicago and Rock Ialand, 103% @ 1034; do.; lard, 735 bbis and tiorces, ing’ this Wate—Pork, 6,097 bbls. ; Kages; cut meats, 18612 do.? lard, 11,494 e3 And 10 Kegs, ‘The market for mess and unchanged, We heard of sales of cted prime mess at $19, 5) bbis. extra Ww mess On the spot quoted 20 10. Bagon was firmer, ios Sales 2 vity long clear at 103s6, a per 1b; Western do. quoted at 10%c. Beef—There were Do transactions of consequence ‘reported to-day, but values were called nominally steady and quoted as | follows:—$11 a $12 ror extra mess inspected, $10 50 a $11 | for uninepected, $10 50 tor plain mess inspected, $9 30 tor | ain mess uninspected. and tierced beef at $23 a $23 for india mess and $20 a $21 50 for prime moss, and city ex- tra India mess at $ t hams were inactive, but quoted steady at $41 80 a $23 for the range. Cut ments— e market was quit, but values remained without no~ Hceuble changa We heard of sales of 69 boxes cleac bellies at 11i4e. | We, qupte:—Piokled shoulders emoked do,, 9c. ; pte! ams, Ile. a isa ; smoked 12360, a 130. Droesod hogs wefe easter at S30 a Sic. for estern and Sic. a for the range of city Lard. The markot for Western steam was again higher, with ood businég at she improvement We heafi of sales 3) flaraas spot at 14366. a 1 S-18c.. L000 teres. for J ary wl 14240, a M4 5-6, 4,000 therces for February at 146 a {43¢0.. 730 tieroes for March at lite. Ci firmer, with sales of 300 tlerces at Bork was quiet bbls. of ini prim ie ae ES Bo Bc. a 8%c. Manila—Superior and ex! a kc. New Orloune—Refining grades, 6c. 8 8c. Rice sola in a distribuung way to a tair extent Pages 4 prices, ai oe i~ fa eet Hee Tac a c. for tair, a c. for s a jor prime UP Wet ele tor shoes botaan Tees Cae, Patna, 7c. a Tigc., and Rangoon, 64c. a 6%C. per ib. Srkanine.—There were ho sales reported, aud values were qalled nominally unchanged. TALLOW was quiet but firmer, prime city hold at 9. We hoard of sates of 80,000 Ibs. of out of town stock at 6c. nY.—Rec8ipts, 922 bbls, making a total week of 5448 bole, The market was "niet but Mantel We note sales of 200 bbls. at Wisc. per gallon. DOMESTIC MARKETS, |ALVESTON, Jan. 9, 1 ‘middling, sf otis wre “ a cadinee 13! mi q 4c. ; good o1 inary, I3igc. N Dales. xports-To Groat Brivaln, 4463; 10 Fs Coastwise, 9. Sales, 1,152. Stock, New On.eans, Jap. 9, 1875. Cotton steady: demand good; middling, lise. : middling, “ge. "ot Teceipts, ood ordinary, ‘12%c. Net receipts, 542) bales; gross, b0r Sales, 5800. block, waeae Wracsotox, N.0., Jan. 9, 187 Spirits turpentine firm at #4igc,. Rosin firm at $1.70 tor strained. Crude turpentine steady, $1 9) tor Lard, $2 5) for yellow dip, $2 50 virgin. Tar steady at $1 7 Cotton steady; little doing; middiing, Lage tiv ge, ‘or st yi ; Middling, il id grim, Mise. i Bood oruihary, RY et Rodin, Tati lee! porte Coastw Fo rock, Soak NHROED Bi Cuar.eston, Jan. 5 Cotton steady: middling, 14%c. a litgc. : low aii ' Me: good ordinary, Léa. 190. Rot recetpiy Lid pale Exports coaswise, 664 Sales, 150, Stock, Montta, Jan. 9, 1875, Cotton quiet and firm; middling, 14 N . byapales™ Exports coastwise, ane baba, own Sedo; Osweeo, Jan. 9, 1975. Flour cull and uncha: 7 sales of 80) Dbis, at $6 for No. I sprang, $6 28 for amber winter, $6 9) tor white win- ter and $6 79 for double extra. Wheat quiet; No. 1 Mil: Waukee Clab $12 per bushel; extra white Michigan, in round lots offered at $183 afloat. Corn. steady at aie, Barley quit: prime Canada held at $143.0$1 50 per bushel. Corn mea! for ited and 236 for unboited Binge $29 per ton Ralivodd irciahte Peer Boe. be reights—VFlour t ie {0c.; to New York, 400.; to Albany, Si, jules hee Borraro, Jan. 9, 1975, Py ey 4 plea) bt rey A bushels; corn, + mts, i barley, | Wheat, 4,000 bushels; corn, 10,Xi I onts, 38 Won the 4.463; to France, 984: ; 1 83,783, ¥ ¢ Gan Lng Bang sonar py, [op ps men, the only | sale of 5 cars w track at 78c. All other articles ‘uuchanged. earl Totxvo, Ohio, Jan, 8, 1875, Flour quiet and unchanged. Whoat dui Roos white Wabash. $1.09: No.1 white lichiaan, $1 W; No. 1 red, 1 1; No. 3d0., $1 Comn—demand ligh | rm; bigh mixed, oash and January, We.; low mixed, Oats quiet and unchanzed. Cioverseed, 85 50; Mame $6, Dressed hows, $7) 2 $325. Receipts— | Wheat, 11,00) bushels: corn, 28,000 do.; oats, 4W0) do. ae 4,000 bushels; corn, 7,000 do; oats, Omr0Ac0, Jan. 9, 1875, | any charge | dress LAW igaetive, a ae ene. on were i, quotab), } onal endency of values were in the ouyer’s favor Mild “Coffee” ruled steudy. with) a sale of 1,000 mats of Java reported at Be, We | o¢ —Rio, ordinary cargoes 17%c. a. IBe,; “taix don Bi 8 18%6. ; good i a 9340. 5 prime Ag. 1955 a | *; extreme runge for lot cc. Disge. 5 Ja ertunent bm Bias el, rane ba, Sc re ate jon, . a 2he., Marac 4 Laguayr: Yio. ; Jamaica, Bo- a 20c.: St” Dotuingor 170. mY Porto Rica, (8c. a 2Uc.; Cesta Rica, i8e. a ssc. : the week’ 4,00) boxes.and 42° nhds., including 1,300 boxes and all she bhis to the United sigies. | Bacon $35 a $59 ry 5 $4 Lard.’ in’ kegs, $39 a $40 per in tins, $44 a $45; potatoes, $5 a $8 25 per bb. ; tallow, $22 | a $28 per finial; orice at 35 per bok for Amerlean ; Gow! Oil, 04; 47 rewis por gallen : empty hhds, $9 50; box shooks, 94a #34 reals. gold; hoops, $1.0 a $105 par Freighis “in air demand. Spanish gold a i American, 199 a 200. Exchange nominal States, 6 old, 90 a 92 premium; 96 mium; on mum, jon, 148 premium; on Paris, 92 & ——+ 2 -___—_ PINANCIAL, —CITY CLAD COLLECTED AND LITIGATION + coniucted, by.an experienced attorney, without uniess-snecesstful; exellent reterences, Ad- | box 2.482 Post office. —t, 8 AND 10 PER CENT . City and State Bonds, Ratiroad Bonds, City Railroad Stocks, ‘iso other choiée Stocks and Bonds paying 10 to 15 per n at a reduction below par, for sale by . ALBERT HM, NICOLAY & CO., Stock Brokers and Auctioneers, 43 Pine street. N. B,—Investment Securtties our specialty 23 y 3 —PuTsS——. STRADDLES ae ‘CAL! Stock Priviieges on all active stocks 1 to 1g from market on members of the New York Stock Exchange. Our facilities tor executing orders for the parchase or sale of stocks or stock privileges are unequalled by any other Louse. We give ail orders our personal attenuon, and guaranteo sat- istaction. Exptanatory pampjilets sent ir TUMBRIDGE & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 2 Wali st., New. \ ork. PRE ADS——————- A™ REASONABLE RATES—MONBY ON LPB AND Endowment Insurance Policies; Mortgage and other securities. Insurance of ull kinds effected with bestcompanies. J. J. HABRI L A. DEFAULTED RAILKO DS Rt H, NICOLAY & CO., Stock Brokers and Auctioneers, No, 48 Pine street, New York. Stocks and Bonds not de. in at the Yew York Stock a —LAPSLEY & BAZLEY, BROKERS, 74 BROAD. Y, NEGOTIATE PRIVILEGES ON “MEMBERS Gis" “DOUBLE PRIVILEGES” (AT 4, SINGLE PRIVILEG 3 5. » and bought by the old established hou BALBE t ri Exchange our specialty 25 ‘0 GES. $100; SPREADS, $60) TO $200 PER 100 SHARES; PAMPHLET “HOW MONSY IS LOST AND MADE IN WALL STRERI" SENT FREK, Y AMOUNT, FROM $1,000 10 $80,000, TO LOAN on improved or unimproved Keal Mstate in this elty or Brooklyn, for term of years, withoui bonus. WILLIAM 1, LEAVITT, 130 Broadway. OND STREET SAVINGS BANK, Bond street and Bowery. Dee, 15, 1874 TWENTY-NINTH DIVIDEND. Trustees have directed that on and after Monday, January 14, at the rate of 6 per cent per annum'be paid to all tors entitled thereto. Interest not withdrawn will be added to and will draw interest as principal. . By order interest deposi- HARRISON HALL, President. D. BAL J. P. Coorrr, Secretary. C. ALLEY, ‘ireusurer, DEPUSTIS MADE ON’ OR’ BEFORE JANUARY 20, DATE INTEREST FROM JANUARY 1. ONDS OF THE PORT ROYAL RAILROAD COM- pany of Georgia, either indorsed or unindorsea, Holders can find # uiarket by addressing G. W. THOMAS, rooms 1 and % 34 Fulton street, Brookiyn, X; OUTORS FUNDS OF $350,000 TO LOAN—ON New York, Brooklyn, Westchester and New Jersey Property; will also buy’ Second and Leasehold Mort- gages. Apply to Executor, No. 6 Pine street, room 18. REEDMEN'S SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITORS DE. shing an early adjustment of their claims by a re- Hable attorney will cull, between 1 and 5 P.M. on THOMAS H. HA! ELL, 19 Nasstu street, New York. NTEREST DIVIDEND, THE Lag ret SAVINGS INSTITUTION, cormer of Sixth avenue and Twelfth street, will pay on the 20th of January next an interest dividend at the rate ot SEVEN PER CENT per 3 ‘annum on all sums of $200) be entitled there:o. - or less whion may ‘Monoy deposited betore the 2th of January will draw interest from the Ist }OHN E DE W1YT, President Gxo, C. Watpo, Secretary. fa Saat te MONE TO LOAN ON GOOD NB or! Mortgages, without bonus Principaly de- airing to BORROW OR INVEST apply t B.-L GIANT Ut Pine streot z 3 = RN a one MRhANres AND TRADERS! SAVINGS INSTITU- tion, No, 283 Bor FY, Behe Houston street, interés Notice. A dividend at the rate of six per cent per annuum has been declared, and will be credited depositors January 1, 1875, on all sums entitled thereto tor the six months and three month: F ar: teposit, drawing intrest trom Jan- uary 1; interest commences January 1 on deposits made now. ALFRED T, CONKLIN, Frosident. H, ©, Figaze, Secretary. “Sh GRE ENS She SE UEEDD MOXEX,10 LOAN IN SUMS PROM $1,000 TO $50,000 on Property in New York or Brookiyn. HINMAN & SON, 25 Pine street WCrice TO NORTH CAROLINA CREDITORS,—Ac- cording to resolution of the General Assembly of D y of December, A. D. 1874, the Joint Standing Committee on state Debt and Liabilities will meet in the Senate Chamber, in the city of Raleigh, on the Mth, 15th and 16th oars ot January, 1875, for the purpose of Conterring with the creditors of the State concerning the settlement of the state debt. R. P. WARING, Chairman Joint Committee State Debt and Liabilities, RADES SAVINGS BANK, 273 WEST TWENTY-THIRD streot, between Seventh and Eighth avenues— Usual dividend declared of seven (J) per cent, pay- able January 21. Money may be drawn out whenever wanted, without notice; interest trom date,o! deposit, thus saving accounw opened or transferred "in part to this bank trom loss of interest; deposits before January At draw Interest from January’, I, M. Pawzsz, Secretary. DuxtenA. Hawxixs, Counsel, RADERY DEPOSIT CUMPANY, NO. 8 LIBERTY L _street.—Money to loan on approved collaterals, ANTED—BY MANUVACTORY OF STRAM ENGINES and standard leat ae Address JOHN, 1,802 Olive street, st. $100 00 TO LOAN—ON BROOKLYN REAL . Betate, in sums to suit. Apply to D. & . CHAUNCEY, Real Estate Brokers, FY Montages poe: ees see Renting ana cellecting renw @ specialty. TO LOAN, IN SOMS TO SUIT, ON 54.00.00, Bead As PBatT oS Lancashire Insurance Company, 187 Broadway. _ $500 000 TO LOAN—o STOOKS, BONDS, Notes, Mortgages and other valuable becurities, in sums to suit; also cash to buy the same. PAUL TODD, 5 Liberty street, COPARTNERSHIPS. LEXANDER HARGREAVES BROWN, OF RICH. mond Hill, near Liverpool, and John Edgar John- son, of New York, have this day’ been admitted parwners in cur houses in this country ad England. ROWN BROTHERS & O, New ¥. 1875. EW YORK, JANUARY &, 1375. The partnership heretofore existi Comerford & Co, of 700 seventh avenue, New York, 1s ‘this day dissolved by mutual consent, qcimmed P. H. COMERFORD & CO, P, S.—The business will be carried on as usual by P. H. COMSRFORD, ing between P. H. BUSWESS OPPORTUNITIES, N EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED FOR agontieman of means to Invest $10.00) to $20,000in arf oki established ana widely Known priuting and pub- lishing house, with or without personal attention to the purines; propent capital over $40,000, standing Al and business ey, prosporous, Address CHARLES STU ART, box 121 Herald oftice, RARE CHANCE.—AN ELEGANT BILLIARD oom, containing 13 Tables, handsome Bar and Furniture somplete, all new, for’ sate or to let on oesy derma; will sell Lease, (or other business; located on ander! avenue an orty-second street, front Grand Central Depot. bic bins L. DECKER & CO., 154 Contre street HALF INTEREST I8 OFFERED FOR $10,000 IN A desirable out of town hotel, doing a paying business ana geet? refitted throughout in the best manner, with water, bat tay CAKLETON, 9 Broad wi throoms, &c. Apply to GRIGUS & D A GOOD blished Busi- a thoro to mit of a investigation ; real estate or bond and mortgay aken in exchange as part payment, Address ACCOR ESTABLISHED STABLE MANUFACTURING siness, paying $2,500 to $3 1¥. for three days, on premises fh Sutin’ streets ‘deat Houston, and see it working. A. BUSINESS MAN, WITH 3790, WANTS AN AC. ceptable associate with a like sum, in a most de- sirable cash otlice pusioeeet 2er trom $7,000 to $3,000 per annam, Apply to ADV IS8k, 62 Bast Ninth street, 10 tilt ESK ROOM FREE, IN MOST PROMINENT BUSI- ness location in city, for gentlemen having $500 to invest legitimately, Particulars at Newspaper Reading py Mion square, city. OR SAL —A STEAM PACKING-BOX FACTORY, doing & business of (rom $50,00 to $75,000), cash, per annum, with machinery and fixtures and ail appurte- Flour dail and unchanged. Wheat steauy;'No, 1 Spring, 920 ; No. 2 do,. Shier ean jab. February, doige. . 8 04, BAKE. 5 oted, 760. Oven A THLXOG, “Hew, 66596. cash ; ary, 7140 March, rejected, nd and higher; No, Fejectod, $80, 48i4e. tive quiet And unch: steady ; 'No. 2 spring, $1.94 4 $1 28; No. 3 di Seeds unchanged. Dressed hous ste gy, ant gpehs active and | oged. Burley | 1.00 a $1 1 Nels; corn, 11,000 do; oats, Li, 0. ; barley, 8,000 | 0, Catthe—Market quiet; the weather is too Intehwely | cold for outdoor basiness; prices steady and unchanged; | shipments, 2.400* Live hogs—Keceipts 16,000; market | fairly pe prices steady and unchanged; some 2:6 cars of stock on the Bul gjon Road being detained ; interior to exira, $6 25a ) Closing firm; shipments, | Ltd Sheep—Kecoipisa,000; market steady ; prices un- anged, | 603 4, Sage. Chan; Shige. February; | ¥ rt (W | on commission or with an interest; his money on! is sold to firet el noes. Address, With real name, BUXMAKER, box 2u7 Herald office, | PARINER WANTED—WITI $3,000 TO $5,000. IN A neat money making business, well established in Brookiyn. For particulary address, for three days, AV LSR, Post office, Brooklyn, HITE LEAD PATENT FOR SALE.—E, MILNE: Patent, No. 14,721, dated July 8, 17: fair demand and highor ensh; | , or sale. } | tes wishing to treat lor it apply by letter, ty harser aa gina her; | Leularsy to BiKANDUN okas OW gi | fy ora AS | neers and Patent Agents, 38 Southampton Build | Woiakey‘in fair demand and ngher at oe, Chancery lane, London, W. 0., England. aii ‘aiternoon grain was quiet and i — unchanged, pork active and unchanged, lard active And | WANTED-BY A PUSHING MAN, WITH SOME unchanged. Receipts Flour, 600) vbls.; wheat, oi | VV capital, sole axency for Philadelptiia ot any article 3 0. 5 x erit; something new : barley, §,000d0. ‘Shipments—Fiour, whoat’ | dress A. 0. P., 42s Arch a aL puisdorptiaee eee = $10,000. tick ttave Gunite TARY, SANTER 000. 0 receiv w the sale of raw material shipped from tht south, tte to make advances. ag the material 88 houses for cash and short time, to such houses as A. T. Stewart's and others; no agents noticed. Address J. B, Kost offive vox 50%, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. wt LESLEY, President. “] , NEW YORK CITY, The police made 1,949 arresis during the past week. 9 REAL ESTATE. A fire happened yesteraay morning in the base- Waiting Upon Mayor Wickham. andi ment of the frame batiding in J. and ©. O’Netl’s marbie yard at No. 219 West Twenty-ninth street, ‘The damage was slight. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning OMcer Thomas Beatty, of the Broadway squad, slipped on tne sidewalk, cutting bis lace badly. gent to Bellevue Hospital. Mr, Jobn De Coursey, fifty-six years of age and born in Ireland, died suddenly on Saturday even- ing, at his-residence, No. 94 Henry street. The in- quest will be heid by Coroner Kessler, Coroner Kessler was yesterday called to hold an inquest at No. 23 Leonard stieet ou the body of Mrs. Catharine Donovan, ‘ifty-dve years of age, and born in Ireland, who died suddenly, The body Was sent to the Morgue, Flames- were yesterday discovered in the pase- ment of the flve story stone front building No. 151 Broadway, caused.by a heater setting fire to some woodwork in the-office of the Resoiute Fire insurance Company. Damage $5v. At a late hour‘on Saturday night, Mrs. Constance Grievere, a lady eighty-seven years of age anda native of France, died suddenly from old age and | {ts ipfirmities. Coroner Kessler was. notified to f hoid an inquest over the remains. Deceased lived at No, 9 Watts street. Joun Rooney, aged twenty-nine years, accident- | ally fel overboard at pier 42 North River yesterday morning, and was. rescued by Jot McGrath, a deck. hand on the tugboat Gracie Lee. Kooney was. taken to the Fifth precinct statiom house, where he was detained as a lodger. The cttizens of New York and the old abolition- ists.are Invited to attend a meeting of serrow for the, death of Gerrit Smith, the philanthropist and advocate of universal liberty, to-morrow night, atdhilon churen, No, 140 Sixth avenue. Rev. H, H. Garnet, Mr. GQ, Edwards Lester and others will speak, Early yesterday morning Officer Nelson, of the Twenty-nintb precinct, found ap unknown man lying in @ cart in Thirty-third street, near Seventh avenue, At the station house it was discovered that he was intoxicated, and that his nands, feet and nose were iruzen. He was removed to Belie- vue Hospital. BROOKLYN. The number of persons arrested during the past week was 350, ‘The receipts during the past week in the Tax Office amounted to $107,126, The new pubiic school on Uupont street, Green- Point, Will open for the reception of pupils on ebruary 1. The poilce are looking after a young man, of good address, w10 has been imposing upon house. keepers by iraudulently representing himsel! to be an employé of the Board or Health, and induc- {ng them to purchase a wortnless article which he | terms a disiniecting powder, John Connelly apd Mr. Sarnwald, while on their way home through Dean street, Brooklyn, found Laurence Durkin, of No. 1,820 Park place, lying on the sidewalk suffering from the intense cold. They endeavored to take bim bome, bat he died beiore they reached hig place of residence. Tae Coroner Was notified. Coroner Sims was notified yesterday to hold an inquest on the body of Mrs, Mary Ann Shaadley, forty-threg years of age, who was found dead in bed, at ner place of habitation, No. 65 Dykeman ‘oet, Jacob Goldsmith, seventy years of age, \“@iea suddenly at No. 590 Broadway, Saran Bohan, forty gout oid, @ Servant, died at No.-196 Prospect, street yesterday morning. a Ss WESTCHESTER. The Sovereigns of Industry, a co-operative asso- clation of woikingmen, organized in Yonkers about three months since, now numbers 135 mem- bers. ‘The Hudson River, between Spuyten Duyvil and Sing Sing is veing fast frozen over, affording lovers | of skating and owners of ice boats abundant facil- | ities for enjoying those winter sports. A closer inspection of the residence of Mr, William Hoge, at which McMullen was shot and fatally wounded, has furnished unmistakable evi- dence of an attempt made by the burgiars to force the front door. A petition to the Legislature, asking that body make the offices of City Treasurer, Receiver of Taxes, Commissioner of Streets and Commissioner of Charities elective, ts beimg circulated at that piace, While indaiging in the perilous practice of “coasting” ou Washington street, Tarrytown, last Friday evening, William Merritt, aged fifteen | years, came in violent colésion with & horse and | Wagon. The great speed at which the boy’s sled was going knocked the horse down, and Merritt | striking the wagon wheel fractured his skull, { pales effects of which he di¢d shortly alter. wn wade Ce ee LONG ISLAND. ‘| The movement for the formation of a sew ooun- ty on Long Isiand, to embrace the towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, is renewed, and the matter will probably soon be brought to the attention of the Legislature, The School Trustees of the town of Babylon have provided, under the Oompulaory Bdncation act, that bevitual truants shall be confined m the schoolhouses of thetr respective districts, for the | first offence not excoeding five days, and ior the | seoond, not exceeding ten days. The regulauon has been approved by Judge Gilbert of the Su- preme Court. : The bouse of Mr. Stephen Macomber, on Main street, Greenport, was nearly destroyed yesterday by fire, with a large portion of ite contents, and | about $40{n money. Both Mr. and Mra. Macomber were absent from the house at the time it broke out, and the young children were leit behind, but BA jortunately rescued, The loss is estimatea t not less than $2,500, on which there ig an insur- ance Of $1,000, EER ‘ STATEN ISLAND. The appraisers appointed to fix the expense of opening, widening and extending Centre street, from Riker street, in the town of Middletown, to Simonson avenue, in the town of Southfeld, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, puts the amount at $21,632, ‘The survoyor's estimate for grading is $8,000. The total amount for Edge- water village to pay is $29,632, There is & movement at the west end of the Islanu, as weil as at New Brighton, toabolish the present police force and return to the old constab- ulary system, Tnere is talk ofa bill to be presented to the Legislature for bonding the county of Richmond in the sum of $1,000,000, to aid in the construction of a suspension bridge over the Kill Von Kuil. Proposals are invited for the construction of & sewer through Clinton avenue, New Brighton, trom Prospect avenue to the Kill Von Kull, NEW JERSEY. The Supreme Court has décided that the amount Mlegally assessed for street improvements in Jer- sey City reaches the sum of $4,000,000. All the smallpox patients in the Hudson County Jail are recovering. All communication with | them has been out off by order of the County Physician, Rey. John 8 Glendenning will attend the next eeasion of the Jersey City Presbytery, to be held at | Hoboken. No objection to his taking his seat is likely to be made. Judge Bedie, Governor elect, will to-day take | his leave of the Bench after a long and honorable judicial career, by delivering hts valedictory to | the Hudson county Bar. The inauguration will take place at Trenton to-morrow week. Rev. Cyrus W. Oliver, pastor of the colored Methodist ehurch in Jersey City, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of defaming the character of twe colored damsels by a public ad- monition, has commenced | a acl against the | two females jor disorderiy onduct in church, Governor Parker will not fill the vacancy tn the Jersey City Fire Vominission. He says thet there is @ sufficient number in the Board to form a quorum and transact business, and he hopes that the Legisiature will abolish that and other commussions in Jersey City and the owner cities of | the State, The latest act of the Police Commissioners of Jersey City that has evoked public condemnation is their innumanity to the sick poor. Those who are afflicted witn disease are now compelled to travel for medicine irom the remotest paris of to so amend the city charter of Yonkers as to | | vitality of the peo} Andrew H. Green. He was | The Desire of the Market thatthe Comptroller Should “Step. Down and Out.” BUILDING AND TRANSFERS OF 187% There isa pause tn the real estate market ta, spite of the hope/ul ieeling noted previousiy asim cident to the close of last year, waiting upon the action of the new Mayor in regard to Comptroller Green. As has been clearly pointed out, and as ts sufficiently notorious to need no further argumen® to establish its importance as a factor in.estimat= ing the condition and prospects of the real estater market, Comptroiler Green represents. the ot structionist purpose of the city administratiom that succeeded Tweed's régéme in regard to ex~ pansion and the “suffocation” policy of real em. tate interests outside of the city, that seek te check progress here. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AT PRESENT CONCERY=. ABLE can Mr..Green recetve the confidence of thist market as the custodian of the city’s 1unds, exer- cising, legally, ministerial tunetions in respect of expenditures for public improvements, while practically usurping legislative au- thority im respect of appropriations. Men in the market, owners of real estato, while dis- appointed that another week has gone by without, witnessing Mr. Green's removal find consolation in referring to the utterances of Governor Tilden in ms Message upon the subject of local self goverument, When tt is recollected that Mr Green is only an appointed: officer, evolved jrom a, pecullarly exceptional condition of aifairs, and of such low popular approval that his incumbency tm A GLARING SCANDAL UPON THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM, as empraced within the spiric of republican inst tutions, and that he came into office under cites cumstances which seemed to preclude the neces sity ofa reference of his candidacy to the peaple, the language of Governor Tilden bears no uncer- tain sound when he speaks as quoted below. He would seem to have bad in view the very issue now most largely affecting that interest, and to have sought carefully without de- scending to personalities to relieve himself of the imputation that any delay on Mayor Wick- ham’s part toremove Green might be in conse quence of his (the Governor’s) interposition in be-. haif of the obnoxious Comptroller. There was TALK ON PINE STREET during the week, which received credence in some quarters, that Green had asked and received from the Mayor a reprieve (from decapitation) of six weeks [rom January 1, in which to adjust his age eounts 80 that he might turn them over to his sug cessor in proper form; but the feeling there ta impatient of even 80 Much grace to a Man who bas. been so utterly graceless in his bearing toward | others, ‘she Real Estate Record, which, whtle it obtains the resources to maintain itself mainly from tals interest, occapie3 it its local reference thus inted out, something of the relatjon of an organ, Phos prieny discusses 1a its lasio OF Becuraay the points touched upon in this article last week and, those more fully treated of in this article:— ‘The year opens with a dull market, asa prelude to activity expected with the spring season, sults have been recorded for the past week, so far as moveinent is concerned, are undisii 3 suture ig yet uncertain and in expectancy. since De~ fiber tore hove has_arisen and there seems to be renewing confidence. We are at a loss to discover the source of this feeling other than 1s contained in the Message of the Mayor and such parts of the Governor's’ Message a8 harmonize with the opinions of real estate owners. To our mind adl kindly sugge: powever, earnestly given or honestly intended, are of No avait, while obstructions to legitimate improvement are pers’ mitted to encumber our very doors. A radical reform is demanded in the method of prosecuting pubile, :me provements, and assessments levied and collected for specific purposes should be applied to their proper use or refunded. ’ The same paper furnishes the following interest D ’ 18 ristics IN REGARD TO LAST YEAR'S BUSIN' which bears out what has been said previously im? this column respecting the character not only of last year’s business, but of the past two years:— market for 1874 followed closely upon the di The 73, and there wag much natural h of the 1a] of Hise ropa esitie, toh stout in the market, Operations’ thug prosracted, the earier sa after rere thos prownites were many. important oferines, eof which were brought to tssue, while others werg” ake © hed. the woakness of them. co anth ae lo, which .owered Bek oF tate d . Hriih SURE of property. while-at 6 time were tained. topmsakiyt property of this character came absolutely. to griet, and many offerings were forced, regardiess of sacrifice. 1 ‘ices of improved pro} fn old and wi tablisned focal ties Reve seal reearmatar arm, pete gales exhibited strong and frequently advancing tem aencicg, ; CME OF BUSINESS IN THE CITY OP NEW TORE for Br nampared with, 187 shows & talling-o n/p the number of transfers of fifteen per cont, with ade- crease in the aggregate of values of $31,085,144, or a dite: ference of twenty-four per cent. 5 Pe rollowing are the comparative sales of real estate r , rears ry 10.596 a October. November, December. er trans! Total number transters recorded, 1: Average price for ach transter, 1873. Average price tor each transfer, 1874, Taxing the number of transfers in 1 at 7 and those of 1874 at 6,191, with $20,388 as the ave - rage figure of “consideration” in the former year aud $18,429 as the srerene figure jn the latter year, 1t will be seen that, while both of these years were years of liquidation and consequently settiement at yalu prices in the jatter y show only @ slight recéssiog trom those of the previous ye With Mr. Grden’s removal just at this time could be sasely said that real estate had at lass touched bottom. The same paper quoted from above gives the following respecting i THB BUILDING TRADES AND THEIR OPERATIONS DURe IN@ THB PAST YEAR, upon another year we take a retrospect o® ast before expressing an opinion of the future. One is cortain, its failures and successes are known; the other is undefined, @ xcept in perience that we have achieved, and from which we may protit. the year there pression, whet bus f with anxious cai The financial Bt ent, Vibrative and unsettled, has Not harmonized with trade. There have been disasters in mercantile transactions and failures of prominent houses, yet trade one atong, pushi here and there, taki litue and giving a little, witl more modest bat evel than during the preced- ing year. What the general results may be we do not know, but conceive that they may be estimated trom the experience, thus far gaibed, of ourown markets. In these we fd that, although ‘many settlements are yet pending, estimates which, probably proximate te the truth, Make a better showing for the year than there was reason to expect at its start, and than seemed possibie in its course. Confiden has vecome gre: Teswored, and the safe method tn which business been conducted has done much to restore it wo & healthy and normal condition. There ha notably in individual ¢ e Bitter with loss and regret. This ig the inevitable of every season and conaition of trad Reference to our review which follows will disclose in Mi ag mi one liculars the builuing ‘kets have suffered or well. ihere has pot beeu abuudance according to past experience, bus believe that there has been we The falling off in business, large as it doubt le: been, does Rot exhibit an extremely large pro- portion of lovs. Expenses nave been met in most ime stances, and there has generally been some assurance 1 margin behind. For this r ‘anon, With the opening of th e has arisen new confidence and @ persistent. steadiast feeling like to that with which the Mohammedan turns his footsteps toward Meoca. 1t comes from the inherent ple and the sense of personal inratli- by yh American sets out upon r worthy of special repark in this intro- art of our review, wt Hol we repeat low, that 90 far ag we are able to learn, paroene have been made and obligations have been ept with a fidelity and punctuality of somewhat fresh experience. Notes have not been protested, where im times past they were in default at maturity, Goods have been paid for, and tew, very tew, vad debts have been incurred. The: ts, ample and more power! than argument, lend cheertulness to the expression ai encouragement to the hope that better days may come POST OFFICE The following 16 the weely return of the search+ er’s and Dead Letter Department of the Post OMee jor the week ending January 9, 1875:— Domestic letters held for postag Foreign letters held fi Uncialiped Notel.vessses forsee Misdirected... Blank or no address, Total. enough. has bility with to fortune. duciory in detail to the O 'y Hospital, within a few blocks etolore the prescriptions of the city | ans Were dispensed in drug stores locate: convenient distances throughout the city, The | new vlan benefits somebodys | papers, to Liverpool, It may be led that there were despatched 61,163 letters by t) steamer Honengolern to bouthampton and Br 1, and 82 bags of ro | 82,684 letters by steamer Adriatic, aud 62 bags